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And President Obama also said that "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.


"That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.


http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-wpxs1Re-8vx2Zk5xnYygW1W67w

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ORIGINAL: Coldwarrior57

WASHINGTON — The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.

He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/politics/29whitehouse.html?_r=2

HMM
another do as I say NOT as do president.
What ever happend to hopie/changie?

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ORIGINAL: E2Sweet

I'm not judging anyone by the temperature they keep their work environment. I keep my office nice and toasty warm too and I like it in the winter months!

Besides, its not like he went off and started a war to settle a family grievance and 'Americanize' a Muslim nation, and in the process caused the deaths of thousands of US soldiers, and then funneled billions of taxpayer money into the war-torn country to be stolen by local officials fleeing the region... Its just way too early in his presidency for that kind of lunacy.

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ORIGINAL: E2Sweet

I'm not judging anyone by the temperature they keep their work environment. I keep my office nice and toasty warm too and I like it in the winter months!

Besides, its not like he went off and started a war to settle a family grievance and 'Americanize' a Muslim nation, and in the process caused the deaths of thousands of US soldiers, and then funneled billions of taxpayer money into the war-torn country to be stolen by local officials fleeing the region... Its just way too early in his presidency for that kind of lunacy.

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ORIGINAL: Coldwarrior57

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ORIGINAL: E2Sweet

I'm not judging anyone by the temperature they keep their work environment. I keep my office nice and toasty warm too and I like it in the winter months!

Besides, its not like he went off and started a war to settle a family grievance and 'Americanize' a Muslim nation, and in the process caused the deaths of thousands of US soldiers, and then funneled billions of taxpayer money into the war-torn country to be stolen by local officials fleeing the region... Its just way too early in his presidency for that kind of lunacy.

all federal building are mandated to keep the thermostats @ 68.
Another case of do as I say, not as I do.
Same ole same ole.

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

Wow, the scandal of the century. I have some rumors. He also wasted dental floss, leaves the water running when he takes a piss sometimes and has been known to leave the mayonaisse out on the table.

I'll bet the SOB even opens the window when he smokes in a car, causing wind resistance and wasting heat or AC doing so. The fucker probably even falls asleep with a plasma TV running from time to time. You know how much power those things eat ? Hell you could almost toast a piece of bread with the power that about three of those things consume !

I bet if we really checked into this we could find alot more. Wasting leftovers, leaving the car running, and if he's like half of the well off people I know I bet he only smokes a half a cigarette and doesn't save the other half for later. I'll bet he even might leave his blueberry on charge for too long. (maybe) He probably leaves all the damn lights on at the Whitehouse as well.

Off with his head !

T

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ORIGINAL: T1981

I'm gonna break in here with something that's off topic, and may not belong here to begin with. But here goes:

I am genuinely, geniunely surprised to find that there are conservative kinksters out there. Honestly surprised. Why, you say? Politics have nothing to do with kink, you say? Well, they don't - except where they do.

I guess I just have a hard time getting my head around the fact that someone who would throw in with the conservative crowd of anti-gay, anti-this, anti-that would also have no qualms with kinky and often judged as immoral, sick, and dangerous sorts of sex that kinksters tend to have. Seems a mighty contridiction to me, even as I know human beings are nothing if not walking balls of contridictions.